Via Florida Today:
Zimmerman’s lawyer to speak at Viera event
O’Mara’s speech, raffle of pistol and Bible expected to draw big crowdGeorge Zimmerman’s defense attorney will be the featured speaker at a Gun Rights Preservation Forum next month in Viera.
The Nov. 4 event, organized by the Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida, also will include a raffle in which the prize is a Kel-Tec 9 mm semiautomatic pistol and a Bible.
Bob White, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus and evidently far less truthful and courageous than the species of ground-dwelling bird his name recalls, claims it’s just a coincidence that Zimmerman’s lawyer is an event speaker and that one of the raffle prizes is the same type of gun Zimmerman used to kill unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.
That’s bullshit, and White is a liar and a sorry excuse for a human being. It would be comforting to think that such an event is just a gathering of bloodthirsty, fringe-dwelling loons who swap homemade bullet recipes and sell each other seed vaults on an obscure website.
But the article notes that event participants include the county sheriff and the newspaper’s public interest editor. This gives it an imprimatur of respectability it doesn’t deserve. Do they show up at Klan rallies too and pretend those events are just a benign component of a diverse political mosaic? Disgusting.
LittlePig
A pistol and a Bible. Boy ain’t that teatard America.
That Bible will never be opened, either.
c u n d gulag
Sick.
What, no t-shirts of a raccoon with his head in a noose, hanging from a tree limb?
And I bet you can imagine what would be written underneath it, can’t you?
I bet THAT would be a big-seller!!!
aimai
The bible probably comes with some kind of safety lock feature, to prevent its being used by accident.
MattF
@aimai: Or if some unsupervised child sees that ‘turn the other cheek’ stuff. Dangerous.
Fuzzy
Bet the bible is hollowed out to hold the gun. The Christian Holster to be lugged and waved everywhere.
LittlePig
Weird. A mistermix post appeared above this one. At first it had no title. I refreshed the page and the title appeared. I wrote a comment, posted it, and…..nothing. Got served a completely blank page, total white space. Now the post is gone – I guess he didn’t want to step on Betty.
dpm (dread pirate mistermix)
@LittlePig: Yeah I hit publish too soon. It’s up now.
Kay
He convicted a 17 year old who wasn’t there and wasn’t represented.
Joey Maloney
Do they show up at Klan rallies too and pretend those events are just a benign component of a diverse political mosaic?
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit. If the editor of the newspaper is under one of the hoods, who’s going to report that the sheriff is under another?
Kay
Where’s Mr. Zimmerman these days? Has anyone attacked him lately? I’m keeping a list. Let’s see, so far his GF, a law enforcement person in a bar, a 17 year old he was harassing and following and his elderly father in law. It’s so weird how this really diverse group of people keep attacking him in all sorts of situations, over a course of years.
Another unprovoked attack! This time, by an IPad wielding senior citizen!
Marc
I initially read that as “a K-Tel 9mm semiautomatic pistol.”
Hey, it couldn’t be any stupider than the reality.
leeleeFL
This is discouragiing. It’s down two towns from me. Fabulous news!
gelfling545
I can see why the sheriff might show up – bunch of loonies carrying guns sounds like trouble looking for a staging point. Anybody else who goes should be shunned for life.
I just found out from my daughter that, oddly enough, my ex- a retired law enforcement officer – who, in his old age had become a Limbaugh listener, Fox News fan, etc. has turned rabidly against the NRA in which he has resigned his life membership and is actively campaigning against our local sheriff, who has made remarks about not enforcing the safe act, on the grounds that law enforcement does not make or amend the law. I believe that having bought the Fox News line about the President & all the horrible things the Kenyan socialist would do to the country the fact that none of them materialized has eaten into their credibility a bit for him and he has started thinking again. Has anyone else seen this effect among their connections?
He may also be influenced by the fact that he is only alive today because he had a court appearance and the officer who went to serve the (relatively minor) warrant he would have been serving was killed by a lunatic firing his gun through the door at the officers attempting to serve the warrant.
El Caganer
Republican Liberty Caucus? Aren’t they supposed to be the “libertarian” faction of the Republican Party? Maybe I’m confusing them with some other group, but this is what I remember. So an event like this, right down to the mendacity, is perfectly in keeping with their self-proclaimed philosophy.
TaMara (BHF)
I posted that last night on the recipe thread, more appropriate here.
RSA
@Kay:
When I was a kid, I’d occasionally come across an essay by a public defender or a mob lawyer who would say that he (always a guy) was defending bad guys in part to preserve the integrity of the legal system, to help ensure that the system worked for everyone. The arguments weren’t always convincing, but at least they seemed sincere, and the writers acknowledged that they were sometimes walking a fine line with respect to justice in the end.
But O’Mara? “Sure, I’ll accept an award for getting a killer off.”
Kay
@RSA:
I’m fine with that. The idea is the prosecution has to make their case. What bothered me here was, the defense case revolved around proving the 17 year old attacked George Zimmerman, unprovoked and the 17 year old wasn’t there, and no one seemed particularly interested in defending him. Zimmerman’s trial turned into the trial of Martin. Martin’s dead. He wasn’t there to defend himself.
Anya
O’Mara has completely lost any semblance of human morals he previously pretended to have. First time he took the case, he pretended to care and to feel sorrow and pain for the loss of an innocent 17-year old. In his first interview he shed crocodile tears for the suffering and pain of the slain young man’s parents. Now he’s taking awards for defending a killer and for convicting a dead 17 year old. I hope there’s such thing as karma.
Chris
“There are national associations of colored people! Why can’t there be national associations of white people? YER a RACIST! Mebbe even the REAL racist!”
Sadly, the Ku Klux Klan chapters you just mentioned often had plenty of upstanding members of Polite Society – that’s what made them so powerful. The sheriff and editor are following a long and distinguished tradition if they’re legitimizing RWNJ gun nuts.
RSA
@Kay:
Right, I see your point.
Kay
@RSA:
Also, I think his attending this rally and spiking the football on a case that revolved around the death of a 17 year old boy is just absolutely disgusting personal behavior. He’s a real class act, that “speak truth to power” advocate. I hope they let him hold their confederate flag for autographed pictures after this repulsive grifter get-together.
trollhattan
Since California has no “stand your ground” law, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/10/18/5833492/mendocino-deputy-da-involved-in.html#storylink=cpy
I’m generally quite wary of rural sheriffs and DAs.
gbear
Will the second prize in the raffle be a box of Skittles and a case of iced tea?
bago
@gbear: Ouch.
West of the Rockies
Man, aren’t there any good old-fashioned bible-thumpers who would be bothered by the weird juxtaposition of firearms and Jesus? I guess we need a new bumpersticker: What would Jesus carry?
Would he be a Tec-9 guy?
Craig
I live a few miles from Viera and this sort of mindset is the reason why I consider myself a Buddhist.